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Lower case x replaced by " lowercase y an z disappear in some fonts !

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Alain_Damlamian
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With TB 91 (I think it started with TB 79 possibly, but I upgraded to 91 within a day) there is a bug with some of the fonts: the font which is used for the Tab names replaces the lower case x by " and does not show y and z (e.g. Inbo" everywhere !). This same problem appears in many places, so the word Mozilla itself appears as Moilla (when asking for the password), the subject fields are missing y and z and show " instead of x .... ! No problem with Uppercase X Y Z.

Interestingly enough, no such bug when using the debug mode (which may use different fonts, definitely bigger fonts ?)

Any idea of why ? Any solution ?

Thank you,

Alain

With TB 91 (I think it started with TB 79 possibly, but I upgraded to 91 within a day) there is a bug with some of the fonts: the font which is used for the Tab names replaces the lower case x by " and does not show y and z (e.g. Inbo" everywhere !). This same problem appears in many places, so the word Mozilla itself appears as Moilla (when asking for the password), the subject fields are missing y and z and show " instead of x .... ! No problem with Uppercase X Y Z. Interestingly enough, no such bug when using the debug mode (which may use different fonts, definitely bigger fonts ?) Any idea of why ? Any solution ? Thank you, Alain
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If it doesn't happen in debug mode, which I assume is safe/troubleshoot mode, try launching in safe mode, check 'Reset toolbars & controls', 'Make changes & restart'. If that doesn't help, disable hardware acceleration in Preferences/General/Indexing, restart TB, and see if that makes a difference.

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sfhowes
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Maybe clear the OS X font cache?

https://gist.github.com/jaredhowland/2da83f0cc0fbb1ac523f

Alain_Damlamian
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One clue added: It also happens in the Search fields and in the body of some messages, including in the message that I compose.

All very very annoying (I cannot search on a name with x, y or z !)

Alain

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Chosen Solution

If it doesn't happen in debug mode, which I assume is safe/troubleshoot mode, try launching in safe mode, check 'Reset toolbars & controls', 'Make changes & restart'. If that doesn't help, disable hardware acceleration in Preferences/General/Indexing, restart TB, and see if that makes a difference.